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Windows Server restart / shutdown history
The clearest most succinct answer I could find is:
How To See PC Startup And Shutdown History In Windows
which lists these event ids to monitor (quoted but edited and reformatted from article):
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Auto Reconnect VPN on Disconnection due to any reason - Persistent VPN
I sort it out using "Task Scheduler"
Here are steps to do it
Make VPN Connection and give it Some Name Let say "My VPN"
Open "Task Scheduler" from Start Menu and click "Create Task" (Option can be ...
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Creating a windows account only for share access
As the reply of joeqwerty is not clear, I want to put the steps in line. This works for Windows 7, 8, and 10 (I'm on 10), as well as Windows Server 2003, 2008, and 2012.
Create the user (if you don't ...
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Windows Task Scheduler does not start task at next run time
My fix was simple... I had already manually ran the scheduled task, but I created the scheduled task for the intent of using it daily... I had several TB to copy over to a backup server so I could not ...
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How often do you restart a heavily-utilized Windows Server 2008R2 Remote Desktop Server (VM)?
Generally, I'm opposed to the idea that a Windows server should be rebooted on a regular schedule EXCEPT in relation to TS/RDS servers. We reboot ours every day. It clears up old sessions, releases in ...
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Nslookup not using hosts file
nslookup does NOT use hosts file but DNS.
Try using ping instead and it will return the IP provided in your hosts file.
Setup the ip for this domain in a real DNS Server.
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How do I disable TLS 1.0 without breaking RDP?
Microsoft released the patch for this problem Sep 15, 2015
See https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3080079
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how do I perform a file transfer using remote desktop on windows 10?
When you are configuring your remote desktop connection, there is an option that is labelled 'local resources' from there you can pass through local drives to the target machine.
You shouldn't have ...
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Easiest way to send a test email from a server, to test settings?
For me, the easiest method is using Send-MailMessage in Powershell. From the Powershell console simply run:
PS C:\Users\admin> Send-MailMessage -SMTPServer smtp.domain.com -To xxxxx@gmail.com -...
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Windows Server restart / shutdown history
Turning @user10082 comment into an answer. The proposed solution is a one-liner, as Powershell script:
Get-EventLog -LogName System |? {$_.EventID -in (6005,6006,6008,6009,1074,1076)} | ft ...
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how do I perform a file transfer using remote desktop on windows 10?
Copy+paste works for me, in both directions
For example, to move a file from local --> remote, minimize Remote Desktop and copy the file on your local machine, then open Remote Desktop and paste ...
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How do I disable TLS 1.0 without breaking RDP?
I have been looking into this for a couple of days now as we to have to comply with PCI-DSS 3.1 which requires TLS 1.0 to be disabled.
We also do not want to fall back to RDP Security Layer which is a ...
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Send Ctrl-Alt-Del to nested RDP session
You can also create a shortcut that performs the CTRL-ALT-DEL action for you (very useful in environments where OSK is not accessible.) Create a shortcut to the following:
C:\Windows\explorer.exe ...
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How often do you restart a heavily-utilized Windows Server 2008R2 Remote Desktop Server (VM)?
Users refuse to log off instead of disconnect
Setup the appropriate group policies to auto-logoff them. You can separately control an idle timeout and logoff. That should certainly minimize some of ...
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View Shutdown Event Tracker logs under Windows Server 2008 R2
I know this is a very old question. But this might help someone who is looking for the same solution. you can use a single line in powershell (which is available in all OS later than win 2003) to find ...
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Stop users from saving files with specific extension in specific directories
You can use the 'File Resource Server Manager' role.
Installation of this role is done from the "Server Manager".
After the installation, enter the 'File Resource Server Manager' mmc console, and ...
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IIS 7.5 Unable to write configuration file
I had the same problem - turned out we'd just run out of disk space.
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What are the implications of enabling the Recycle Bin feature in Active Directory?
The main implication of enabling this feature is that it will increase the size of your DIT. (Your database.) It tends to increase the size because objects that have been deleted hang around longer ...
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What are the implications of enabling the Recycle Bin feature in Active Directory?
I think the only reason it's not enabled by default is because in order to use it the AD Forest function level needs to be raised (minimum 2008 R2) and it's this particular piece of administration ...
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Windows DNS Server register a non **DHCP** client (server) into 2008R2
Actually, there is a utility named nsupdate that follows the protocol and provide what I was looking for. On Debian and Ubuntu, nsupdate defined as 'nsupdate is the little-known brother of nslookup'
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Could not connect to remote computer web deploy ERROR_DESTINATION_NOT_REACHABLE
A comment on this answer at stackoverflow got me on the right track with this same error message if anyone else comes across this and the other answers don't help: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13871041/...
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GPO option for "Show Desktop Icons"?
Yes, there is an option in GPO.
Do realize that users can still add or create shortcuts or items on their desktops. You can also prohibit this if needed.
If you want to do it using the registry, ...
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Unable to move OU in Active Directory (Access is denied)
Although there are multiple posts dealing with accidental deletion protection, ACEs/ACLs, permissions, and moves/deletes in general, I couldn’t find one dealing with my specific issue however simple ...
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Managing Security Groups for NTFS Permissions
Your thoughts are essentially what I do, and I've had a lot of success in managing things that way in complicated environments.
The solution to both of the question is that you create resource groups ...
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How to enable TLS 1.1, 1.2 in IIS 7.5
The easiest way to make changes in Microsoft SChannel protocols and ciphers (including cipher ordering) is to use IIS Crypto which is a completely free tool that can be downloaded without any kind of ...
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This task requires that the user account specified has Log on as batch job rights
This is a user right that's applicable to the local system. You can grant the right locally or define it in a GPO that applies to the system in question.
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Robocopy One-Way Sync
As per the documentation the syntax is as follows:
robocopy <Source> <Destination> [<File>[ ...]] [<Options>]
There's a few oddities with your script:
/S copies ...
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What are the implications of exceeding 4 GB in a Windows Event Log?
Other than the awful performance and ridiculous wait times when you have to load a 4 GB log and the hell it will be if you ever have to search through such a monstrous thing, not much. I think the ...
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Grant NON-administrator privileges to IIS 7
Well you have a mess on your hands.
You should really look into a Plesk or something similar,
Based on your statement "but these decisions are made way above my head and my voice has been heard and ...
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Shared Home folders on file server listed as "My Documents"
There's a much easier method, non-destructive, which targets the actual Desktop.ini entry responsible for this behaviour. Go to:
Group Policy -> User Configuration -> Preferences -> Windows Settings -...
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